Quote Originally Posted by d_virginiana View Post
I always wonder why people get so upset over anyone mentioning Thiaminase deficiency...
Who's upset? Just trying to bring some balance/other things to consider. All too often people are just so quick to blame thiamine deficiency/thiaminase poisoning just because their snake ate a few minnows and is now spazzing out. I've had them develop tremors, seizures, etc or even spazz out in the way described when they haven't had a bit of thiaminase. One time I had them develop tremors after eating trout for a long time. Took them off the trout and all but one recovered. Now, supposedly trout doesn't have it, and supposedly they don't go from healthy to thiaminase poisoning in just a couple of months. But it sure looked like thiaminase poisoning. Doesn't mean it was, especially considering it was trout.

Now, what was described just doesn't sound like a neurological problem at all. No tremors? No vibrating? No problems moving around? Just sudden rolling and mouth open, etc. All I know is that I've see snakes act like that when it couldn't possibly be thiaminase, more times than I can count. Sometimes it just passes and the cause is never known. Sometimes they just throw up and feel better. Sometimes they just drop dead soon after. We don't really know what the snake's problem is, and that's the point I'm trying to make. If the snake just drops dead tomorrow one could just say he died because of thiaminase and that might even be true but the point is we don't really know that.

And yeah, in my opinion it doesn't sound like a neurological problem but I don't claim that it isn't. Just doesn't sound like it is all, from the basic description. It's not like I have the snake right here under observation.